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Things have changed drastically. I am assuming your daughter wants to teach elementary or a humanity. Otherwise Marh 30-2 is closing a lot of doors. As far as an easy job, if is truly that way why do we have one of the highest attrition rates within the first five years? The benefits ain’t what they once were, they are a joke compared to most private packages now, the salary has been stagnant for a decade and the work is becoming increasingly complex.
You know from our previous conversations I. The topic I will stand by you with distaste for the union as their only goal is self preservation and profit off the backs of teachers, especially dead ones. However, the career is daunting, and complex and with today’s salaries she may only teach for 3:4 of the year but she will be working for that summer to make any financial headway in life. As a lifelong educator I will steer my kids away from the career at all costs, at least in Canada and especially in Alberta.
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Math 30-2 will close no doors, but keep banging that drum. Once you're in university you can do anything you want within that university following a quick meeting with a dean, a prof or anyone else who can make an exception with the stroke of a pen. lol at thinking Math 30-2 will close doors. That's ridiculous.
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As far as an easy job, if is truly that way why do we have one of the highest attrition rates within the first five years?
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I need two things to accept this as anything other than union propaganda designed to make teachers think they have it so hard and require the union to protect them from the big bad world.
1. A citation.
2. A comparison against all other university graduates.
I bet $25 dollars (if you want to accept) that teachers stay at their jobs at higher rates than those who graduate from other university programs. That is, if you're saying they have a higher attrition rate within the first five years, I need to know what jobs it is higher than.
I don't believe the statistic on an intuitive level, but I think since you're the one who brought it up you can be the one to defend it.